The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival is set to return for its sixth edition this 2024. Organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation since 2018, this year’s Festival will be held for the first time in Italy, in Rovereto and Trento, from 30 August to 7 September 2024. The event is being held in partnership with the Oriente Occidente Dance Festival and is supported by the European Union.
This Festival aims to celebrate and strengthen cultural ties between Asia and Europe through a diverse programme of dance, film, installations, video art, and music that showcases artistic excellence from the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Germany, Viet Nam, Italy, UK, India, and beyond.
The full festival programme was unveiled last 13 June during a press conference held in Italy.
Festival Highlights:
Biomodd [TT015], a global collaborative art project by the collective SEADS (Space Ecologies Art and Design), challenges presumed notions about the relationship between nature and technology thanks to upcycled computers coexisting with internal living ecosystems in imaginative installations co-created with local communities.
Last Portrait, a performance-installation developed as result of the collaboration between Ashley Ho, Domenik Naue and Pietro Marullo, questions how documentary matter from seemingly separate narratives can meet, to facilitate a generative and healing space through performance.
The Rite of Spring is a contemporary dance performance that becomes a bridge between Europe and Asia. It is a reiteration of the classical ballet score by Igor Stravinsky with Bharatanātyam, one of India’s best-known traditional classical dance,
BREAKING BOUNDARIES: Rethinking Art, Technology, and Sustainability for the Future is a roundtable that serves as a platform to discuss how art, technology, and ecological advocacy can contribute to envision a future that prioritises social equity, cultural diversity, and ecological resilience.
BRIDGE is a collaboration between two music ensembles, Siong Leng (Singapore) and Tempo Reale (Italy), bonding Nanyin Chinese traditional music with electronic music and sound arts.
Sound of X is a digital project initiated by the Goethe Institut for artists from Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Oceania to create video soundscapes that rethinks how we immerse ourselves in the soundscapes of different urban environments.
These programmes underscore the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival’s dedication to fostering cultural dialogue, innovation, and artistic collaboration between Asia and Europe.
Full information about the programme here!